TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahalakshmi,R ed.
TI  - Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India
SN  - 9789388414296
U1  - 700.9540901 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic India
KW  - Art, Indic -- History
KW  - Art de l'Inde -- Histoire
KW  - Religious art -- India
N1  - Visual representations as historical source in ancient and early medieval India: an introcuction / R. Mahalakshmi --
Visualising power: sacred and temporal --
Conceptualising the Divine Feminine: forms, meanings and symbols --
Religious traditions, visual representations and regional contexts --
Social imaginaries and the ocular --
Prescriptions and representations. Visual representations as historical source in ancient and early medieval India: an introduction / R. Mahalakshmi --
Visualising power: sacred and temporal. Power of image and image of power in the Indo-Iranian borderlands: case studies of Bactrian Greeks and the Indo-Greeks / Suchandra Ghosh --
The Abhiraka coin: search for a new identity / Dev Kumar Jhanjh --
Emblems of faith, monuments of authority: Brahmanical iconography in the temples of the Calukyas of Badami / Niharika K. Sankrityayan --
Controlling the waters: divine imagery and royal enterprise in early medieval Tamil Nadu / R. Mahalakshmi --
Conceptualising the divine feminine: forms, meanings and symbols. Giving Akara to the goddess: Kali in textual and visual traditions / Sneha Ganguly --
Prajñaparamita: the making of the first Buddhist goddess / Megha Yadav --
Representation of sixteen Mahavidya in the Dilwara Jaina temple / Virendra Singh Bithoo --
Religious traditions, visual representations and regional contexts. Icons and patterns of worship from the fringes of South India: the religious landscape of Northern Tamil Nadu / V. Selvakumar --
From Viraja Tirtha to 'allegorical' Nabhi Gaya: exploring the changing religious landscape of Jajpur (sixth to fourteenth centuries CE) / Umakanta Mishra --
Donors of Kurkihar images: an investigation into their socioeconomic background / Sayantani Pal --
Social imaginaries and the ocular. The marriage rite of Siva-Parvati: Specimens of early medieval Indian temple art / Neha Singh --
Imagery of love making: representation of the erotic body in the temples of early medieval Odisha / Sujata Rakshit --
Of men, stones and stories: revisiting the virakals of South India / Malavika Binny --
Prescriptions and representations. The gaṇa who consumed himself: Kirtimukha in North Indian literature and art, 400 CE-900 CE / Anisha Saxena --
Buddhist theory of representation / Y.S. Alone
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